Graduate Diploma in Business - Human Resource Management

at Eastern Institute of Technology - Hawke Bay Campus New Zealand

The Bachelor of Professional Creative Practice (Honours) programme is collaboratively offered by EIT’s two iconic creative practice schools: IDEAschool and Toihoukura. It offers a unique perspective from both the European and Maori creative culture allowing a wide selection of media to be advanced.

The Bachelor of Professional Creative Practice (Honours) provides the opportunity for you to gain a postgraduate qualification, create an effective and professional body of creative work, make it publicly available and speak professionally about that work based on in-depth and broad research.

Advance your knowledge and capability to meet the future needs of the national and global logistics and supply chain industry. The postgraduate program suite in logistics and supply chain management will prepare and upskill students for success in the industry. 

These specialist programs open up career pathways that derive from the synergy between the fields of Business and Technology, especially from a strategic view, and from the need for organisations to harness technology more effectively.

Advance your knowledge, skills and entrepreneurship to problem-solve issues and effectively manage solutions in the constantly evolving global business environment.

Students will learn to evaluate the impact of social, ethical, cultural and sustainability dimensions on digital business contexts. The program aims to produce graduates who will be able to contribute to the execution of digital transformation strategies and decision making processes to solve complex business problems

The Master of Nursing Science is a 180-credit program which enables registered nurses to further develop their knowledge and skills for professional practice.

As a graduate of the program you will be equipped with expanded nursing knowledge, refined skills for evidence-based practice, and enhanced clinical judgment and research skills which will enable you to deliver advanced nursing practice, nursing education and leadership.

The program for cookery and professional chef training at EIT is full-time for two years which offers you stimulating studies and provides the opportunity to begin a career in the hospitality industry.

Formal work experience in industry is an important part of the program, providing valuable on-the-job training as well as building professional networks and experience.

This program incorporates two specialised streams to choose from:

• Patisserie: breads, pastries, desserts and cakes, includes City & Guilds Diploma in Patisserie.
• Cookery: global cuisine, modern cooking techniques, menu planning and costing, and charcuterie.

The Master of Health Science programme provides the opportunity for practitioners working in health and health-related fields to advance and expand their knowledge and expertise within an interdisciplinary learning environment. 

Courses are designed around knowledge and research relating to key threads of health disparities and the global health needs of populations. The program provides you with the opportunity to investigate the worldwide improvement of health, reduction of health disparities and protection against global threats from an international context.

The multidisciplinary and inter-professional context of health science involves everyone sharing discussions from their own experiences, enabling all practitioners to advance their knowledge of health treatment, care and prevention of disparities in a truly interdisciplinary sphere.

This degree will give you a strong foundation in business and help you gain the skills today’s employers demand. You will benefit from a wide-ranging business education with plenty of practical experience, and you can choose to specialise in majors in:

• Accounting
• Management
• Marketing

Accounting Major
Graduating with an accounting major will enable you to undertake accountancy related work in the commercial and not-for-profit sectors. With appropriate course selections you will be able to meet the provisional admission requirements Chartered Accountant (CA) with either Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) or CPA Australia. The Program Coordinator can advise you on appropriate course selections.

Management Major
Typical opportunities after graduation include the areas of: human resources; operations management; or developing your own business.You will work initially in roles such as Team Leader, Functional Manager or Management Trainee, progressing to more senior positions with experience.

Marketing Major
Typical opportunities after graduation include work as a Marketing Manager, Sales Manager, Account Manager or Product Manager and progressing to more senior positions with experience.

The Master of Professional Creative Practice is a 180 credit program with full-time study for one and a half years at Level 9, consisting of four compulsory courses that provides you with the opportunity to create a body of creative work to a standard that develops, extends and refines prior professional practices, processes and knowledge. This will be done through research and critical evaluation to strengthen your creative practice while contextualizing your practice in relation to relevant communities, contemporary concepts, models theory, technologies and professional practice management techniques.

The PGDipIT is a one year Level 8 full-time programme with a minimum of 120 credits. It enables those who have completed a computing degree to achieve a postgraduate level qualification in information technology.

Those who wish to progress from the PGDipIT to the MIT will need to complete eight courses (120 credits) at Level 8.

The programme can be completed in one year full-time or up to four years part-time, depending on your previous study and experience and specific course preferences. It can act as an entry point into the masters degree if you do not initially meet the entry requirement and need to demonstrate your ability to study at a postgraduate level. Alternatively, if you initially enrolled in the masters degree and are not in a position to complete it, you can transfer any applicable courses to the postgraduate diploma for the purposes of qualification completion.

Tourism Opportunities prepares graduates for an exciting range of employment opportunities in the tourism and travel industries. In particular, the program is designed to develop skills to be able to:

• Apply knowledge of customer service and selling skills
• Apply tourism workplace practices
• Demonstrate knowledge of Hawke’s Bay and New Zealand as tourist destinations
• Demonstrate a broad knowledge of the tourism and travel industry
• Apply knowledge and attributes required for a barista role
• Demonstrate knowledge of tourism business systems
• Manage first aid in an emergency
• Apply knowledge of marketing in tourism
• Demonstrate knowledge of tourism quality management
• Apply knowledge of tourism event planning